| The Tabla of Lucknow presents a synoptic overview of music making in the city of Lucknow based on ethnomusicological fieldwork conducted in the early to mid 1980s. Beginning with general information on the history of Lucknow and its pivotal role in the evolution of Hindustani music in the nineteenth century, the book studies and investigates the employment of musicians, political machinations in the music world, the social organization of Lucknow`s hereditary specialists, and traditional versus modern methods of musical training. Throughout this book, the paradigm of Lucknow`s cultural decline from pre-eminent centre of excellence to quiet backwater is reflected in the Lucknow tabla tradition`s fight for survival and recognition amid the social and cultural upheavals of the past 150 years. The book comes with a CD. |
